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How to make Flower Invitations

These
fabulous flower pot invitations were made by
Kim Carney
who has made up this tutorial for us to make our own sweet invitations. A word
of caution before you start though - They are expensive to mail so
consider this invite if you are making less than a dozen invites in total for
a small birthday party or
if you will be hand delivering the invitations yourself.

Supplies:

Computer and a colour printer - alternatively you can print in
black and white and color by hand with water colors. Maybe use rubber
stamps and text, a bit more work but they's look lovely.

Small circle punch - up to 1" would be a good size

Small 1" clay flower pots (we purchased at Michaels)

Green paint

Dowels or green toothpicks. Toothpicks are a bit too thin. If
you use doweling you will need to paint them green and cut to size

Glue, scissors etc

Floral Styrofoam, cut very small to fit into the clay pots

A tiny bit of moss to cover the Styrofoam

A small mailer box to fit the invitations along with shredded
paper

Step 1

Carefully cut the styrofoam into pieces that will fit snugly
in the pots. Glue it into the bottom of the pots

Step 2

Step 4

Choose your flower design and create a MS Word document or
similar and insert 2 flower images per
invitation the same size as your punch. A 1" flower shape will work well with
the punch.

Create the text within the leaf as well. In Word you
would insert the leaf image, then create a text box over the top of the image
(View -> toolbars -> Drawing -> Text Box. Double click the text box to set the
Line color = 'No Line' and the Fill color = 'No Fill')

Step 5

Print out the flowers and use the circle punch to cut out each
image. You can also do this witha pair of scissors. Take two flowers and glue
them together with one end of the dowel sandwiched in the middle.

Step 6

I was able to fit the party information on to the front and
back of 2 leaves. Print out the leaves and cut them out. fold them in half and
glue them onto the dowling.

Step 7

Stick the dowling stem into the styrofoam. cover over the
styrofoam with the floral moss - use a bit of glue to hold it firm.

Example of how you might set up your flowers and leaves sheet ready to print.